10.19.06

She’s so cute, but will I survive?

Posted in Life, the Universe and All that Jazz at 12:27 pm by Meg

Girl is 12,

she gets along well with her brother. A couple of years ago the two of them made some friends who were also older brother/younger sister pairs and the 6 kids started doing things together. When they started getting together the boys all played Magic while the girls did whatever. Then they got into D&D and everyone plays. Well by this point, there were a few extra older boys hanging out with the group.

So now the group runs 2 or 3 girls with 5 to 7 boys. Because of the distances involved with some of these friendships, most D&D nights end up being mixed-gender sleepovers. They get together mid-to-late afternoon, play/hang out until about 2 AM and then crash, when they get up in the morning, they’ll usually play some more until parents start arriving to get them. (The girls do go off to a bedroom to sleep.)

Having hung out with her brother’s friends so much (they play a couple of times a month), Girl is very comfortable with her brother’s friends. They are all in the drama class that I’m doing on Tuesdays, and Girl also sees some of the younger boys at co-op on Thursdays. Fridays they all get together again for gym. She also does the Tuesday night engineering classes at the local college with a couple of them.

Well, for the last couple of weeks she has been inseparable from J. He’s the youngest of Boy’s group of friends and is actually only about 18 months older than Girl. The fascination appears to run both ways. J has a Green Day baseball cap that he wears all the time and anymore, when they are together, Girl is wearing it. Today, for co-op, J showed up wearing a cat bell chocker - very much like the ones that Girl is apt to wear. It has J’s mom and I in stitches.

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